Software Engineer, Financial Engineering is open at OpenAI in San Francisco (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $266K - $445K. Posted on Aug 28, 2026, and still on OpenAI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
, you will: - Have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend, platform, or distributed systems. - Have strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, storage systems, transactional workflows, and event-driven architecture. - Have experience building systems where correctness, reliability, observability, security, or data integrity are especially important…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on OpenAI’s careers page.
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